The person making the wish this time was Ning Nuonuo herself.
She wished she had an older brother who would love her. She always felt that if her brother hadn't died, and had taken care of her, none of this would have happened.
Of course, if she could, she wished she could stop going hungry.
This is a simple task.
With him there and so much food, he naturally wouldn't let Ning Nuonuo go hungry anymore.
Ning Hong then ruffled Ning Nuonuo's hair again, her gaze becoming increasingly tender.
Throughout her life, she encountered so many bad people, yet she never thought of revenge; her heart was truly gentle.
People who are too gentle are more likely to encounter bad people.
She became cannon fodder between Liang Huixue and the prince. She was just someone who wanted to have enough to eat, yet she ended up being buried in a mass grave.
Ning Hongze is currently in Shanshan Village, Pingxi Town, Yangcheng, Dajin Kingdom. It would take a day and a night to travel from the capital on horseback without stopping.
Shanshan Village is not a wealthy village; most of the villagers are poor.
The most beautiful house in the entire village was Ning Hongze's uncle's house, which his father built for his uncle. Next was the village chief's house, and then the house where Ning Hongze's mother sold him.
A red brick house.
But now it no longer belongs to him.
It was written clearly in black and white. Twenty taels of silver sold the family, and also the last remaining affection the brother and sister had for their mother.
From those memories, Ning Hong naturally knew that their adoptive father, Ning Sheng, was not dead. He had gone off to pursue his beloved and had never paid any attention to them, the brother and sister. Since that was the case, he simply assumed that their father was dead.
When the weather improved, he took Nuonuo to sweep the tombs.
They had food and blankets, and for two whole months, neither the brother nor sister appeared.
No one in the village came looking for them.
The village chief is getting old, and even if he wanted to visit them, his family probably wouldn't agree.
"Do you think those brother and sister are still alive?" Could they have starved to death?
In March, the weather warms up.
The ice and snow melted, forming trickles that flowed into the river.
Now is the best time to sow seeds.
Normally, they would often see the brother and sister mingling behind the villagers, hoping they would share some seeds with them.
Their land had been taken over by their uncle, but they could still scatter some grains in front of their house to at least provide them with some food. However, these past few days, they had been waiting and waiting, but the brother and sister had not shown up.
The village chief of Shanshan Village was slightly worried.
He quickly sent Uncle Ning, who was sowing seeds in the field, to check on the thatched hut.
If they really are dead, at least they should be given a proper burial.
"What do I care if they live or die? I'm not going." He still remembered that brat kneeling at his door and taking a whole bag of their grain. He felt annoyed just looking at her now.
Especially since his son was about to take the imperial examination for the title of Xiucai in just over a month, his younger brother suddenly disappeared, his fate unknown. His former sister-in-law, Ma, was also a despicable woman who sold his brother's house without a word and remarried.
If she had married into an ordinary family, they could have brought a group of people to make a scene and at least demand some money back. But unfortunately, Ma remarried into Zhang the butcher's family.
Zhang the butcher's family is from the next village. There are six brothers and two sisters in the family. The youngest brother has already passed the county-level imperial examination and is said to have a high chance of passing the provincial-level examination. Both of his sisters have also married scholars.
This family is not to be trifled with, and neither is this butcher Zhang; he's a big, burly man.
He possesses brute strength.
They have no chance against the Zhang family.
We had no choice but to admit defeat.
Aunt Liu, the eldest aunt of the Ning family, rolled her eyes and suddenly a faint smile appeared on her face. "Husband, go and take a look."
"I'm not going. What's there to see? It doesn't matter whether this burden lives or dies." Anyway, their family has no shortage of male offspring.
"Honey, go and take a look. I'll go with you."
After many years of marriage, seeing Aunt Ning's expression, Uncle Ning blinked and let Aunt Ning lead him to the thatched hut where Ning and his sister lived.
"What exactly are you planning to do by sending me to see them?"
"Rui'er is still short of money for the exam, that's why I was thinking about money."
"Silver? Those two are penniless, where would they get silver?" Besides, he saw it clearly back then: Ning Hong lost a lot of blood and probably wouldn't survive.
“Let’s go and see. If one of those two is still alive, we’ll sell her.” Ning Liu was certain that if one of the two was alive, then that person must be Ning Nuonuo.
Although Ning Nuonuo is ugly, as long as they are cheap, someone will still want her. If both of them are dead, "Ning Hongze must have been dead for quite some time. I don't know if these corpses will be enough. If they are, we will sell their two corpses and at least get some money."
"Selling corpses? Someone wants that stuff?"
"Of course there are. I heard it from my family. There's a wealthy family on my side, with the same surname as me, Liu. They lost their daughter and want to arrange a ghost marriage."
"At least one of our two corpses can be sold."
"But Nuonuo is a girl?"
"If you don't tell and I don't tell, who will know?" Of course, she still hoped that Nuonuo could live, so that she could be sold to a slave trader for a lot of money, much more than the money from a marriage alliance.
"That's true."
The two of them ran excitedly toward the thatched hut.
To their surprise, two people were squatting outside the thatched hut.
One big and one small, one male and one female.
They all appear to be alive.
They're doing quite well.
Ning Nuonuo has always been a thin and wiry little girl, but after this winter, her long face has become much prettier.
The same applies to Ning Hong.
They all seem to have gained quite a bit of weight.
I gained weight while staying home all winter?
Where did they get their food?
Uncle Ning knew perfectly well that he had only given them a small bag of coarse grains; that was simply impossible to sustain them for more than a month…
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